From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Disabling specific ligatures
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:30:19 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1109191028090.27339@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F6CBB41-9A8C-4A96-9E47-70FCFD91F793@googlemail.com>
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On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 18.09.2011 um 03:13 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:02:43PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>> In MkII, one can disable ligatures by inserting {} at the
>>>> appropriate place. For example `self{}ish` disables the ligature
>>>> between f and i. What is the equivalent way to disable ligatures in
>>>> MkIV?
>>>
>>> Inserting a empty box? self\null ish seems to work.
>>
>> \null works but it disable hyphenation.
>>
>>> The "Unicode way"
>>> would be inserting U+200C (ZWNJ)
>>
>> Thank you. This works perfectly.
Actually it does not. The word cannot hypenate wher \zwnj is inserted.
> When you don’t mind the extra space you can use “|*|”.
This works well. But why is the * discretionary defined to insert the
extra 0.05em space? (I can overwrite it in my document, but I just curious
about the reason for the original definition).
Aditya
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-18 0:02 Aditya Mahajan
2011-09-18 0:50 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-09-18 1:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-09-18 7:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-09-19 14:30 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2017-03-21 16:44 disabling " Csikos Bela
2017-03-22 11:04 ` Hans Hagen
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